(And, why? If you like.)
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Bazaar (flatpaks) because of its aesthetics and ease of use. Also, it’s a good way to find niche apps directly published by their authors.
I also now avoid the AUR altogether.
AUR because it sometimes comes with bonus packages. Last week I downloaded a text editor and got a free crypto miner on the side
Nix
Kudos.
It’s not one I’ve sank my teeth into as a daily driver yet, but, yes… as near a faultless choice as one can make.
No explanation necessary. Stands on its own merits.
Apt because…it’s all I know 😅
I think my favorite to use is apt, the various incantations you use the most are nicely spelled out and if you need some nitty gritty you can just call dpkg directly.
From my first 8 years distro surfing, apt sure is my most familiar to use; most in muscle memory. So many debian and ubuntu respins.
Portage.
Portage is the only one that makes sense to me. It doesn’t try to hide it’s internals from the user
Yup.
Invites, even demands, the user have a look and get their hands on, just to use. Very good, keeps userbase more astute. No “convenient” plastic wrap, to keep users ignorant, disempowered and dependent.
Even today, I was looking into updating an ebuild, when a package in an overlay seemed lagging on maintenance, and was no longer successfully emerging. I’d not bother looking into doing such on other distros[1].
1 oh, exceptions!
(… well, maybe yeah, on CRUX, KISS, or Carbs, but that’s different ~~ a little ~ still keeps the user apprised of internals (albeit by having even less). I’m still more glad for portage, over those gorgeously simple distros, what with the convenience and power of useflags, savedconfigs, patches, profiles, even keywords (and slots (lol))… convenience that still to access, beckons one into learning more about the system. Portage, still easy choice. Fave. … Though… Paludis exists too… And that other one, I forget the name of. [Edit: pkgcore] ).
I haven’t used Gentoo in maybe 15 fifteen years or so but it was definitely the funnest to use
15 years ago, I was using Gentoo the funnest way.
USE="-*"… And it was also the most productive time of my life. Really hones the system to just what you need, when adding useflags only per package as needs arise.
yeah, I loved it when I had the time for it. I used it on several machines as my daily driver back in the day. I can remember getting a new Thinkpad for work and deciding on Arch over Gentoo given the relative time commitment… then the disaster with the Gentoo wiki happened shortly thereafter and I’ve not run it since. I’m running Fedora Silverblue at the moment. glad you’re carrying the torch!
(Despite the python)
There’s always Paludis. It’s basically “Portage but C++”. And seems to emphasize decentralized repositories more. I’ve never used it personally, but I’ve been curious since I learned of it.
Paludis
Thanks. Yeah.
I’ve dove into Exherbo installs, enthusiastically, several times, aspiring “this time, I’ll immerse myself like it demands, and make it my daily driver”. Yet to take. [Close, at least a couple times]. Love it to pieces still though. Never had the gall to try paludis in gentoo yet though [not even briefly to see how distinct from Exherbo’s quirks of implementation]. I do love its philosophy of decentralised repos, mirroring / resulting from, the philosophy of all users are developers. … Maybe another 19 years in gentoo bootcamp, I’ll be ready to give Exherbo the dedication it demands, to be able to properly use it. … Until then, portage remains fave.
C++
How long until there’s a vibe coded drop-in replacement for portage/paludis/pkgcore written in rust? :3
Apt-get is legit!
dnf out of the two that I’ve tried. It’s a little more streamlined than apt, it seems.
flatpak because I love ragebaiting
Alpine apk, it is simple and really fast, and I love that there’s a file where I can just type the programs I want, and then it installs them. And with the chimera linux cbuild system it is just incredible
The simplicity is so refreshing. The speed’s almost too fast, like it cheapens the event. (… Speaking from portage being my fave.)
Yum, because its reminds me of food.
yay because it’s fast and zypper because it’s intuitive.
Is brew a package manager? That.
On macOS, but it seems like using apt on Linux (command line) back in the day.
With CaskHub on top of it
Honestly I like most of them. they’re all pretty good. that being said wasn’t a fan of xbps. found it slow. Nix is great too. it’s just so damn easy. especially if you use comma. I also like DNF. pacman’s pretty good too especially when you add “ILoveCandy” to the conf. Portage is great too.
But honestly out of all of them, and this isn’t linux, but FreeBSD’s is my favourite.
xbps. found it slow.
Really!?
I find xbps very fast.
I don’t know maybe it was the mirror I was on, maybe it was a bad day for it, but installing packages took awhile.
Got me wondering… just a rudimentary poke at it, no deep investigation…
time xbps-install -Syuand I see it takes about 2-3 seconds per mirror to update the list, and then with a big fat load to upgrade of 374mb to dl, 1238mb on disk, and as I watch the packages come in, most are giving avg speeds equiv to maxing out my connection, whole load done in 431.37s. Seemed super slick and fast to me. Would still be barely begun if on Gentoo or Suse.
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